Ego Is the Enemy

Highlights

• If ego is the voice that tells us we’re better than we really are, we can say ego inhibits true success by preventing a direct and honest connection to the world around us.
  • Tags: career psychology
• Research shows that while goal visualization is important, after a certain point our mind begins to confuse it with actual progress.
• “To be or to do? Which way will you go?”
  • Tags: career happiness
• Passion typically masks a weakness. Its breathlessness and impetuousness and franticness are poor substitutes for discipline, for mastery, for strength and purpose and perseverance. You need to be able to spot this in others and in yourself, because while the origins of passion may be earnest and good, its effects are comical and then monstrous.